Top 100 Quotes About Away
#1. The only things we keep permanently are those we give away,
Waite Phillips
#2. But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#3. The question becomes, because we're remotely far away from the territory we're about to bomb, does it make it easier to do it? That it is an important question, and the military is asking those questions.
Gavin Hood
#4. There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern liberalism: its use of moral equivalence to avoid confronting evil during the Cold War.
Dennis Prager
#5. Our universe grants every soul a twin-
a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.
Julie Dillon
#6. This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.
Sue Monk Kidd
#7. Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
Randy Newman
#8. Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time.
"When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him, flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.
Alan Glasser
#9. There is no way in hell another guy is going to push me away after going this far, no freaking way!
Karen Swart
#10. Pie ... it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.
Kevin James
#11. Sunny day
Sweepin' the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Joe Raposo
#12. When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
Ben Barnes
#13. I get my share of mud flung my way, but the secret is to dance in the rain and the mud will wash away.
Philip Catshill
#14. The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.
Barbara Park
#15. For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.
Slavoj Zizek
#16. Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.
Book Of Eli Movie
#17. I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.
J.L. McCoy
#18. When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.
Akshay Vasu
#19. Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.
Ringo Starr
#21. To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.
Anthony The Great
#22. Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.
Fannie Flagg
#23. There, on that hill, his wife could be seen. She lay like a sleeping boulder, the air and toxins wearing away at her, her arms curled under her head. Maybe.
Hugh Howey
#24. I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.
Mary Renault
#25. I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
Sandra Cisneros
#26. Helena dreamed about the keepers of the fire. The poorest old women had stored it away in suburban kitchens and had only to blow very gently on their palms to rekindle the flame
Eduardo Galeano
#27. I have simply given up a longevity which I never possessed anyhow. I have turned away from the con game which the gods run in their heavenly side-show. I no longer care under which shell the pea of immortality might be found. I don't need it. I have my moment which is quite enough.
Robert Sheckley
#28. Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong and alien. Although without taking anything away, you should probably also never discount the fact that blood does look particularly good against snow.
Mark Billingham
#29. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
Emily Giffin
#30. I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.
Al Berto
#31. If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.
Jay Cassidy
#32. Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
Henry Ford
#33. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Gautama Buddha
#34. I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
Karin Slaughter
#35. The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.
Rick Riordan
#36. Kicking the door shut with the heel of my boot, I wedge her against it, raining kisses on her skin, wishing I could climb inside her and kiss away the welts left on her heart and mind.
Poppet
#37. Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
#38. I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
Ray Bradbury
#39. My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.
Leon Panetta
#40. The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep
Margaret Mead
#41. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
Dan Abnett
#42. We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.
Spike Lee
#43. For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
Albert Camus
#44. I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Rita Dove
#45. The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is.
Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271
Sharyn McCrumb
#47. The great grindstone, Earth, had turned when Mr. Lorry looked out again, and the sun was red on the courtyard. But, the lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with red upon it that the sun had never give, and would never take away.
Charles Dickens
#48. I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.
Otto Frank
#49. Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
Chuck Palahniuk
#50. To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.
Domenico Cieri
#51. Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#52. He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.
Adam Haslett
#53. Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it ... when in fact, they didn't
Randy Pausch
#54. Resentments and grudges are two of the main culprits that perpetuate cycles of self-abuse and victimhood. Stowed away inside you like parasites, they deplete you of your God-given life force and separate you from your inherent worth, your joy, and the love in your heart.
Debbie Ford
#55. Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Karen Allen
#56. The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#57. May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
Alexander The Great
#58. Are you?"
"What?"
"Venomous?"
Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. "Try me and see."
"Maybe later, after I've survived Michaela.
Nalini Singh
#59. Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Gunter Grass
#60. As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay.
Kim Harrison
#61. The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.
Margaret Atwood
#62. YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE ...
... they go away.
... strangers die.
... people you know fairly well die.
... friends die.
... people murder people, like in books.
... your own folks can die.
So ...
Ray Bradbury
#63. ITs not the number of breaths you take, but the number of time you experience something that takes your breath away, that defines your life.
David J. Murray
#64. I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.
Richard Rogers
#65. Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.
Max Lucado
#66. I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.
Chuck Ragan
#67. Young adult novels don't shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and 'Blubber,' the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.
Jami Attenberg
#68. In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
Adrian Hodges
#69. Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.
Jeff VanderMeer
#70. You keep asking me that," she said sharply. "No. I don't care to notify anyone. I can't bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won't return to that." There
Joyce Carol Oates
#71. This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits ... on the croquet lawn]
Paul Clark
#72. I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
Nicolas Cage
#73. The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
Eric Whitacre
#74. A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I walk to the little market a few blocks away, it feels like a test of endurance.
Henri Cole
#75. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.
Frances Hardinge
#76. Great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance.
Salvador Bernal
#77. I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.
Tawny Cypress
#78. It was as if everything else in the world had fallen away for Jace but himself and Clary, and he was looking at her with an unconcealed yearning and desire that made Simon feel awkward, as if he had somehow walked in on a private moment.
Cassandra Clare
#79. I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God ... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence ... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence
#80. It took many years for me to see that hope doesn't take sadness away," Blue said sincerely. "But hope reminds you there's something good in spite of the sadness. There's joy still ahead, still yours for the taking.
Natalie Lloyd
#81. She thought to resume crawling, then consciousness slipped away again.
Steven Erikson
#82. Hate Sits on a Stool
Hate sits on a 3-legged stool of
suspicion, jealousy and fear.
Kick away any one of these legs
and the hater will fall flat on his ass.
Beryl Dov
#83. Often it is children who tell their parents to put away the cell phone at dinner.
Sherry Turkle
#84. Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
Nizar Qabbani
#85. Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
Jim Rohn
#86. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#88. I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.
Laura Bush
#89. Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.
Thomas Aquinas
#90. Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings.
Shin Towada
#91. I truly was Cinderella, only my prince threw away the glass slipper and stole me away before midnight struck. My prince was evil. My prince was the villain.
Pepper Winters
#92. It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
David Leavitt
#93. Hmmmm ... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different.
Grandmaster Flash
#94. That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.
Sylvia Day
#95. Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.
James Hunter
#96. China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.
Jerry Yang
#97. I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?
Ann Brashares
#98. All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
Steve Reich
#99. The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago.
Anne Frank
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